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Re: nvda in safe mode

What I have read so far only mentions a special form ofdel that is a security-oriented form which apparently destroysthe file and any file deleted that way is pretty much a goner butwhether or not it is done one at a time or by batch file is nevermentioned.

I really hope not to have to use Safe Mode. The systemcontinued to run after my accident though I got some messagesfrom browsers that indicated I zapped data files in my homedirectory which need to be brought back.

I looked at further messages as I wrote this one and whateverybody is saying is valid but when files are deleted, they arefirst moved to Recycle where they sit until either someone or processempties the bin at which point, you really do make the job ofrecovery much more difficult and dangerous or if you use theRecycle Bin, the file just gets moved back from where it came.

Fortunately, these are user files, not system files.

Let 's make sure I am accessing the recycle bin correctly.

It's a Tree View when you hit Enter on Recycle Bin.

In a perfect world, there would be a Recovery engine thatwould say "Where are the files to be recovered?" You might evenbe given buttons that say "backup media, Recycle Bin" and youpick 1 and probably should be given a recovery criteria in whichyou can tell it everything that was deleted 24 or less hours ago.

What I can't seem to find anywhere is actual file namesor anyway to copy them anywhere or do anything else for thatmatter.

All the articles say how easy this is which makes methink that I'm looking in the wrong place or the absence of someof those missing files is confusing the restore process.

Is there a mailing list similar to this one only aboutWindows, specifically? I appreciate the knowledge and answers sofar, but NVDA is only tangentially related to this problem.

As a unix command-line junky for 30 years, deleting filesdoes create a situation in which forensic methods are needed tobring them back and the only unix-based platform I know of thatalso has a trash bin does initially move deleted files to ituntil you empty the bin and that's pretty much that. Thatplatform is the Mac.

If your deleted file is still in the bin, you can copy itout but when it's gone from there, it isn't worth the risk andpossible trouble.

Several articles I found on line say that Windows7 to 10to first move deleted files to the bin.

I just did a little looking online. I found information relating to using cmd in XP but in the small amount of searching I did, nothing that discussed Windows 10. But I don't see why this would have changed. The del command in XP doesn't send files to the recycle bin. it just deletes them. I read parts of one or two discussions about how to have files sent to the recycle bin when using cmd but they were for XP, and other old versions of Windows. What is discussed may apply to Windows 10 but I don't know.

Evidently it isn't the use of a batch file that causes this behavior, as I thought, but use of the del command either manually entered or in a batch file, if nothing is done to change this behavior.

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